AOMedia Officially Releases AV2 Codec After First 1.0 Milestone
AOMedia formally announces AV2, following its first 1.0 release, with better compression, multi-view video, and early ecosystem work.
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The Document Foundation Slams Euro-Office Before Public Launch
The Document Foundation disputes Euro-Office’s “first European open-source office suite” claim and criticizes its OOXML default.
Rspamd 4.1 Spam Filtering System Improves Mail Scanning Performance
Rspamd 4.1 lands with redesigned MX checks, load-aware upstreams, dynamic composites, stronger diagnostics, and broad security hardening.
Proton Drive Native Linux Client Is Finally in Development
Proton confirms it is actively building a native Drive client for Linux, using its new SDK to bring encrypted file sync closer to desktop users.
OpenCV 5.0 Computer Vision Library Released with Rewritten DNN Engine
OpenCV 5.0 debuts a new DNN engine, broader ONNX support, VLM inference, C++17 requirements, and legacy API cleanup.
Flatpak 1.18 Released with AMD Compute Interface Support
Flatpak 1.18 adds /dev/kfd support through DRI permissions, improving AMD GPU compute access for sandboxed Linux apps.
Firefox 153 Lands Vulkan Video Decode Support, Big Win for Linux NVIDIA Users
Firefox 153 lands a Vulkan Video decode path, giving NVIDIA Linux users a long-awaited route to GPU-assisted browser video playback.
HandBrake 1.11.2 Video Transcoder Fixes x265 Crash
HandBrake 1.11.2 video transcoder fixes a 2-pass x265 crash, resolves memory leaks, updates FFmpeg and SVT-AV1, and more.
Yay 12.6 AUR Helper Lands After Six Months with Smarter Search
Yay 12.6 updates search ranking, improves repository sorting, fixes package lookup errors, and refreshes metadata handling for Arch’s AUR.
COSMIC Desktop’s Big Visual Upgrade Moves Closer to Release
COSMIC Desktop’s Frosted Glass effect moves closer to release with new Settings controls for opacity, thickness, panels, applets, and windows.